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http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/12/09/americans-say-150000-a-year-is-rich/

You just don't even need to read the comments. You can make them up, and they will be the same as the real ones.

Hurting, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link

America OTM, assuming you lead a reasonable/sustainable lifestyle and don't have any kids

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link

http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/103560000/103563248.jpg

remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link

I can see some complaints about the nuances of it, I guess. For example, people who go to top law schools can leave with $150K+ in debt easily, especially if they have a little undergrad debt too. Then some of them get these jobs that start at $160K and pay bonus too. Which is holy shit a lot of money for a 25-year-old to make. But (1) they have $1500 loan payments every month, (2) they probably have to live in Manhattan or the inner outer boroughs (or equivalent neighborhood in whatever expensive-ass city) because they're working 12-14 hour days and (3) these jobs only last like 5 years and then most people wind up at lower salaries in their next jobs.

Not feeling sorry for anyone like that, but I can see scenarios where you wouldn't feel "rich" while working 70 hour weeks and living with roommates, even with high income.

Hurting, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link

Dont think they are representative of overall demographic, relatively few people in that income bracket work in big law.

iatee, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link

its more than 90 some percent of people make therefor its rich, income isnt as accurate a measurement as wealth, but still

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link

Meanwhile, the ACTUAL ruling class has a special holiday message for you:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-20/bankers-join-billionaires-to-debunk-imbecile-attack-on-top-1-.html

Hurting, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link

no one said 150k a/y was actual ruling class

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link

I realize that -- didn't mean it that way

Hurting, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link

yeah yeah sure sure lower tier rich apologist

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link

one thing that always annoys me is the "making 150k in nyc is like making 60k in ohio" or whatever. I mean there are some things that are objectively more expensive in certain metro areas but a lot of the stuff people include in the 'cost of living' in nyc is just keeping up with the joneses type shit.

iatee, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link

vietnamese food is waay cheaper in new york

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link

is it? it's a good deal in clevo, usa

http://mekongriverinc.com/img/mekong.pdf

brownie, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link

Where in the 5 boroughs do you need to be before 1 bedroom apartments under $2K become non-laughable and how large can you expect them to be? Can you still find that in Brooklyn?

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link

I have a really great 1br a block from the subway for $1150

iatee, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link

u can find 1brs under 2k in the nice parts of brooklyn, in manhattan even!

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link

iatee lives in queens btw

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link

it's true ;_;

iatee, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link

aw

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link

but yeah in the less expensive parts of manhattan that's not even unfeasible. most of brooklyn, all of queens outside a few rich pockets, most of path jersey, parts of the bronx are also decent places to buy a lil house.

iatee, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link

lol so basically Boston is now more expensive housing-wise than NYC? that's ridiculous

(not that you can't find decently-priced 1BRs here, it's just the days of the low $1K seem to be long gone ;_;)

(man I wish I was moving to NYC)

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link

new york is still more expensive all things considered, but boston is well known for being v expensive!

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link

rip my 1997 $900 jp 4br

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

boston also has considerably less housing stock and can't really build more at the rate nyc can.

iatee, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

that was the most disgusting apartment in the world fwiw but still xp

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

I think if you judge by 'decent 1br in okay neighborhood on train' nyc is prob 'cheaper' than sf, boston, dc

iatee, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, I've always gotten the sense that NYC's real estate was grossly inflated by everyone thinking the entire city was CPW or Chelsea

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link

not if you include places the train goes that arent in 'boston', which you prob should xp

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link

nycs real estate is grossly inflated tho!

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link

also the nyc subway goes way more places than those other cities trains do

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link

fuck an apartment broker tho

mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link

no thx, I'm married

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link

would broke

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link

i'm taking a self-imposed lurker role for the foreseeable future (or at least until we're out of sandbox), but really this needed to be shared:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/nyregion/a-wedding-as-a-festival-of-ideas-and-self-promotion.html

Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link

a loft-like store for arty bibliophiles

t. silaviver, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link

a lot of the stuff people include in the 'cost of living' in nyc is just keeping up with the joneses type shit.

The cost of the major expenses - housing and food - is not.

C.K. Dexter Holland, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link

ooh u have to eat u bougie fuck

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link

you can eat as cheap in ny as anywhere

iatee, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link

i want to throw up on this paragraph:

During the reception, Mr. Friedlander asked his guests to please recycle their cups, “because we’re really in a serious situation with climate change.” There was no guest list in the formal sense; the reception was open to anyone who wished to attend. Friends came, and friends of friends, whom the couple had never met. Before the ceremony in the Brooklyn bookstore, Ms. Schmidt walked into the Starbucks at Main and Front Streets and told strangers they were welcome to drop by.

remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link

They did not want their wedding “to be just about us,” the groom told me

at this point, I stopped reading and started laughing hearitly

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link

gah stupid typos

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link

man if I were sitting in a starbucks and someone invited me to their wedding I would totally go

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link

what if they didnt want it to be about u

awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link

Easiest argument against "Manhattan is 3x more expensive than <X>" is median incomes - IIRC from an old argument with gabbneb, median income in Manhattan proper is still only $60k or something like that, and lower if you include areas with (relatively) easy access to Manhattan. vs $42k national median, etc.

milo z, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link

all weddings are abt me thats just how it is

Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link

what if you had to tell them what you were committed to

nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link

i am commited to doing the macarena with somebody's grandma in a hotel bar after too much shrimp cocktail

remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link

I would tell them that I was committed to punching them in the face

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link

Ms. Schmidt, who once served as the creative director of Moomah, the children’s cafe in Tribeca that caters to parents in denial about some of the distasteful aesthetics of child-rearing, made the cards in her favored style of heavy stock, neutral paper and quaint typefaces. Through her company, Screech Owl Design, Ms. Schmidt makes beautiful, twee paper products that would seem to demand an existence inside a Miranda July snow globe. Synergistically, Powerhouse is among the many places where Ms. Schmidt’s work is sold.

oh my god the author of this piece DESPISES them

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link

Beyond any of that, though, the wedding was probably the first in the city to be held as a kind of TED conference. After the ceremony, in which chants were chanted and vows, written by the couple’s friends, were exchanged, guests sat down to a series of talks, with PowerPoint presentations, on subjects of interest to the couple — ecological efficiency, neuroscience, holistic healing. Those who did not care to listen wandered about eating dumplings and popcorn, which made up the entire nuptial meal.

like seriously, she wants to see them flayed

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link

holy shit that is the best ending paragraph ever

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link

i wonder how many people there said "oh my god. soooo good" when they ate the popcorn

nuhnuhnuh, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link

Easiest argument against "Manhattan is 3x more expensive than <X>" is median incomes - IIRC from an old argument with gabbneb, median income in Manhattan proper is still only $60k or something like that, and lower if you include areas with (relatively) easy access to Manhattan. vs $42k national median, etc.

Those are not especially useful statistics, at least for purposes of this argument, as there is extreme variation from the median. There are many lower-income areas of the city in which people could not afford to live absent public housing or rent control laws.

C.K. Dexter Holland, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link

"the popcorn really brings out the notes of fennel and cardamon in the shrimp"

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link

commitment life: to see you flayed on your wedding day

nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link

ecological efficience: science
neuroscience: science
holistic healing: horseshit

remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link

"liz lemon is influential upon us"

nuhnuhnuh, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link

Those who did not care to listen wandered about eating dumplings and popcorn, which made up the entire nuptial meal.

This mental image is just hilarious, bemused bored people ambling aimlessly around munching on popcorn and wondering why the hell someone is having a Powerpoint presentation during their wedding.

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link

http://sofiainvitationsblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/all-you-need-is-love.jpg

put a bird on it

remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link

quaint typefaces

remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link

I really don't see how this couple could have made this entire enterprise any more about themselves without making everyone wear masks of their faces

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link

I can imagine a horrible wedding like this in nearly every decade of the 20th century. and an article to correspond.

The '90s iteration would be all hobo style, with baja sweaters, henna tattoos, white guy dreads, tribal drumming, maybe brick-oven pizzas on a grill served beside samosa with weedy chutney

The '70s version would be better. Held on somebody's indoor/outdoor patio, involving crystals, essential oils, and readings of free-verse poetry followed by a bead-making party.

remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, those would be fun in their own way, though, i imagine.

but this one is pushing it

dell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link

also i would like to go on record as saying that TED is ass

dell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link

come on everyone loves powerpoint

nuhnuhnuh, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link

omg I didn't even read the captions on the pics: LISTEN UP David Friedlander spoke at his wedding, where there were lectures instead of a meal.

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link

lol

dell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Chris_Anderson_2007.jpg/800px-Chris_Anderson_2007.jpg

get your frogbuttons off of my eyeballs you shit

merry xmas, have a nice blood

dell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/12/18/nyregion/18BIGCITY1/18BIGCITY1-popup.jpg

^^^ this is the picture that caption came from

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link

ALLOW FOR THE UNKNOWN AND AMAZING

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link

UNKOWN actually

Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link

WHAT YOU CAN DO?

Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link

isn't there a german word for presenting ideas that are otherwise reasonable if not for being rendered in off-puttingly smug ways?

dell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link

lol obv I didn't notice the typo

OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link

xp yeh. my guess was going to be dellscheiß or dellschmerz

dell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link

should give a TED talk on how to tie a tie

nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link

years and years and a few years ago i had a job interview straight outta college but had almost never worn a tie in my life before (yes i led a very sheltered life but not in any glamorous way) anyhow, i was waiting for my roommate to get home b/c i knew that he knew all about that stuff... but the minutes passed, and he never showed up. i ended up going to the 7-11 down the street where i went most nights anyway (insert "markers" reference here) to buy snackfood. the store was owned by a pun alert -thai family- and the guy tried to do it for me, but the end result was so pitiable that i ended up waiting up until 4am or so when my roommate finally came home.

anyway i got the job. it was some ridiculous temp job working for some horrible pr firm.

moral of the story is, yeah you should.

dell, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link

i have to resort to google every time i need to tie a tie

1staethyr, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link

Those are not especially useful statistics, at least for purposes of this argument, as there is extreme variation from the median. There are many lower-income areas of the city in which people could not afford to live absent public housing or rent control laws.

perhaps you don't interact w/ these people but there are *millions* of middle class people in the nyc metro area who don't live in the projects or depend on rent control

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201112/nfl-stars-environmentally-friendly-palace

wow your eight bedroom, six-car garage, lagoon-shaped swimming pool castle has *energy-saving lighting*

iatee, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link

Tom Brady's 22,000-square foot palace near Los Angeles is nearing completion, and it will make almost any environmentalist smile.

*smiles*

nuhnuhnuh, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link

absolutely cannot understand the appeal of living in a mansion

nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:41 (twelve years ago) link

that's the rictus inducing neurotoxins in the cement fumes

awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link

man there are so many great reasons to live in a mansion: helps prolong murder investigations, dont have to see lousy family so much, can give yr house a name w/o seeming foolish/overreaching

R.I.P.iest (Hungry4Ban) (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:43 (twelve years ago) link

it seems like it would be cool if you had a posse, but realistically not very many people have posses

iatee, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link

trapdoors

nuhnuhnuh, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link

cauldron of boiling oil placed above portico

nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link

Those are not especially useful statistics, at least for purposes of this argument, as there is extreme variation from the median. There are many lower-income areas of the city in which people could not afford to live absent public housing or rent control laws.

What iatee said, but also public housing and rent control exist, and people who live in Manhattan and the NYC metro area are using them and surviving. 'Extreme variations from the median' doesn't mean that the median isn't representative of the people who live there.

milo z, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link

perhaps you don't interact w/ these people but there are *millions* of middle class people in the nyc metro area who don't live in the projects or depend on rent control

I understand that facile condescension is something you can't resist, but a) I'm speaking of Manhattan and not the NYC metro area, and b) duh.

C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link

My point was that the figures are impacted substantially by government assistance, among other factors.

C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link

What iatee said, but also public housing and rent control exist, and people who live in Manhattan and the NYC metro area are using them and surviving. 'Extreme variations from the median' doesn't mean that the median isn't representative of the people who live there.

It's unrepresentative in the sense that if people had to actually pay full value for their housing, their salaries would have to be increased, or they would have to move. Either way, median salary would be (possibly substantially) higher.

C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link

There are also a fair number of young people in Manhattan whose salaries are subsidized by other sources including parents, under the table income, illegal activity, etc., without which they cold not make it here.

C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link

Not that that isn't true other places as well, but both the degree and dollar figures involved may be much greater in NYC.

C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link

my argument was "middle class people can live in new york" not "middle class people can live in the most expensive part of new york"

iatee, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:21 (twelve years ago) link

C.K. Dexter Holland, will you come back to the real ILX once that's back up?

nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH_9lU7UBHY#t=0m33s

C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link

Damn embedding - try 0:33 in.

C.K. Dexter Holland, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link

Maybe this is the real ilx! Ever think bout that? xp

Carnitas, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link

ilx, just realness

monomaniatee (t. silaviver), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link

Mr. Hill gave a talk about the importance of personal downsizing, which was largely a talk about his life. Having made a lot of money in Internet businesses, Mr. Hill said, he first bought a big house and car and then got rid of possessions and traveled the world with only two bags, before moving into a trailer in Baja California, Mexico, and then into a cousin's garage in Maui, Hawaii. He found that he was quite happy.

mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link

Mr. Hill then gave a talk on the importance of identifying the most promising dumpsters within easy walking distance of one's cousin's garage and demonstrated how to prevent a shopping cart wheel from "going crazy".

Aimless, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link

absolutely cannot understand the appeal of living in a mansion

― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:41 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

i can understand not giving a fuck abt some contempo monstrosity, but man living in an old sprawling victorian palace would be so baller

Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link

*locks cooper chucklebutt up in a shuttered off remote wing of his sprawling victorian palace*

nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link

I feel like it would feel baller for 5 days, but then just start feeling like the shining

iatee, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:21 (twelve years ago) link

the shining is so baller (insane variant)

Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link

w/ fu

R.I.P.iest (Hungry4Ban) (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link

ilx is like a decrepid victorian mansion that has been used as a hunting retreat and school and a sanitorium and the ghosts of its different incarnations skulk around trying to relate to each other

awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link

amo, amas, amat

BANG! BANG!

(has photo taken with foot placed carefully on the carcass of a schoolchild)

(chortles and has a coughling fit, wherein bright red blood stains his handkerchief)

Aimless, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:41 (twelve years ago) link

just killed ten minutes looking for pictures of julie as she looks today. no luck.

Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 05:10 (twelve years ago) link

(from 4/02/01)

iatee, Friday, 23 December 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link

Last year, Mr. Munson said, he made more than $350,000.Hehas $100,000 in the bank and says that by the time he’s 40, he will be worth $28 million.

math

Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 24 December 2011 07:25 (twelve years ago) link

That story reads like "Random Guest at Coke Party Interviewed"

Hurting, Saturday, 24 December 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link

THE marriage game has no shortage of matchmakers, wedding planners, fashion stylists, floral designers and other referees.

Now joining their ranks is a group of consultants called proposal planners, who advise men, and sometimes women, who want to propose but are flummoxed about how to go about asking this life-altering question memorably.

For a fee, proposal planners promise to help plot a scenario for the key moment and assist in its execution, with just the right helicopter, hot-air balloon or gondola, and along with it the proper locale and musical accompaniment.

Sarah Pease, the owner of Brilliant Event Planning in New York, was focused solely on weddings and parties until 2008, when a friend proposed with an engagement ring at the bottom of a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. She then became a proposal planner as well.

Ms. Pease typically charges $500 for devising a plan; having her handle the whole operation can run $12,000, she said, plus any fees to those providing the transportation and site.

mookieproof, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link

here's how you plan yr proposal:

1. buy a ring
2. ask yr partner to marry you

if your partner loves you, I guarantee you the proposal will be memorable

OH NOES, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link

3. helicopter

Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link

4. kfc

Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link

my partner threw up later that night

should have read the signs tbh

mookieproof, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link

Sarah Pease, the owner of Brilliant Event Planning in New York, was focused solely on weddings and parties until 2008, when a friend proposed with an engagement ring at the bottom of a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. She then became a proposal planner as well.

is this paragraph intentionally or accidentally bitchy

OH NOES, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link

How does the idea of putting a ring in the bottom of a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken even happen, though? Like the only thing I can imagine being a worse idea is throwing the ring at the woman and screaming "DO YOU WANT TO GET MARRIED?"

C-L, Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link

How is that worse?

sean doily, Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link

the ring is actually a bowling ball

OH NOES, Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link

hide the ring inside yr butthole #protip

Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link

that's actually how Bobby Brown proposed to Whitney Houston

OH NOES, Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:58 (twelve years ago) link

encase the wedding ring inside a bowling ball

nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link

Throw the engagement ring into a room, scream "IF YOU WANT TO MARRY ME, GO FETCH THE RING!"

If the woman goes into the room, announce "I forgot to mention, inside this room, there are BEES!!!!!" as you lock the door.

Shout "BEEEEEEEEEEESSSS"

Tru <3 foreva

C-L, Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link

romance^

Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link

we are so going to put that woman out of business

OH NOES, Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link

don't you mean bees-ness

nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link

ILX Sandbox Proposal Idea and Honey Mfg Co.

C-L, Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link

how to go about asking this life-altering question memorably

oh, for crying out loud. eat leaden death, for you are unmasked as space aliens.

Aimless, Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link

that's actually how Bobby Brown proposed to Whitney Houston

― OH NOES, Saturday, December 24, 2011 7:58 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

when whitney went to blow cocaine into bobbys butt there it was, she crey

Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, 25 December 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link

planners promise to help plot a scenario for the key moment and assist in its execution, with just the right helicopter, hot-air balloon or gondola, and along with it the proper locale and musical accompaniment

http://faculty.fullerton.edu/cmcconnell/H101A/Shark&Helicopter.bmp

illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Sunday, 25 December 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link

the ring is inside the shark

sarahel, Monday, 26 December 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link


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